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Public investment cannot be assumed to be automatically financeable by debt merely because it has high social returns.

Drawn from what Olivier Blanchard said

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What Olivier Blanchard actually said

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    Olivier Blanchard 1 Jun 2022

    Thus, as desirable as public investment is, the proposition that it can be automatically financed by debt is wrong.

    Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Ratesdirect.mit.edu

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